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News Wire: Juanita 'tough as nails' Campbell dies at 74

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Posted by Brian Schmidt on Wednesday, November 15, 2017 8:44 AM

SHENANDOAH, Va. — Norfolk Southern railroaders are remembering a "tough as nails" woman who became a locomotive engineer at an age when others might consider slowing down. Co-workers say that Engineer Juanita Campbell died in her Virginia hom...

http://trn.trains.com/news/news-wire/2017/11/14-tough-as-nails

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Posted by edblysard on Thursday, November 16, 2017 9:10 AM

Not a bad run.....74 sounds good in fact.

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Posted by ChuckCobleigh on Thursday, November 16, 2017 12:17 PM

edblysard

Not a bad run.....74 sounds good in fact.

74 makes me think of so many B&W pictures of crews from the steam era where the engineers all looked to be about that old.

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Posted by daveklepper on Friday, November 17, 2017 12:47 AM

If you are refering to the crews on the top trains, yes.

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Posted by BaltACD on Friday, November 17, 2017 7:42 AM

edblysard
Not a bad run.....74 sounds good in fact.

74 sounds way too young to pass on - in the 21st Century.  In the early 20th Century it would have been a long life.  In the 21st US life expectancy is 78.4, it is higher in other countries.

Never too old to have a happy childhood!

              

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